CHAPTER 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Heart disease still leading cause of death in PH. With growing

concern for the population of people with heart problems, health
care facilities, specifically hospitals, are starting to
specialize in heart and cardiac care. Most of the facilities that
specialize in heart and cardiac care lack in outdoor environments
for their patients. The outdoor environment has been used for
healing as far back as the Middle Ages. Reinventing these areas
and improving them to accommodate those with heart problems could
be one of the best ways to improve the health of a patient.

The outside environment can help the healing process and this
study will help prove how it can be useful.Designing for
therapeutic outdoor spaces is a fairly new field in Landscape
Architecture. Before more spaces and facilities are built, there
is a need to educate health care providers, insurance providers,
care takers and patients about the benefits of outdoor healing
gardens. Every day there are new improvements and articles
educating about the benefits of this kind of treatment.
“If we are going to base it on the recent WHO (World Health
Organization) list Top 10 Causes of Death, ischemic heart disease
and stroke still rank as top two. That has been the trend globally
for the last 15 years," Dr. Gino Quizon, a cardiologist of Medical
Center Manila, said during a health forum.

In this project, the author set up guidelines and applied the

newest information to a specific site.In today’s society when a
hospital is built, great care is taken to make sure the building
has the most technologically advanced equipment as possible. While
specific attention is devoted to the technological equipment
inside a hospital, not much care is taken in the design of the
landscape around the building. As with this project, many
therapeutic garden designs today are placed in existing hospitals.

This project is a design of a cardiac/heart recovery and

recreation garden at the new heart center in Cauayan city Isabela.
The project incorporated finding the best location for the garden
and how to incorporate cardiac therapy on that location. The
project is a detailed plan for a therapeutic roof garden.

1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Since, there is no hospital in Isabela that is exclusively

dedicated to the treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary
arter disease, heart failure, valvular heart disease and
electrophysiology. It is good to have an Heart Centre in the city
of cauayan that will make an easy access for treatment for
isabelinos and its nearby provinces. Cauayan City is a 3rd
class city in the province of Isabela, Philippines .According to
the 2015 census, it has a population of 129,523 people.